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Top Gun: Maverick Official Trailer (2020) Starring Tom Cruise
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How many old heads remember this from the 80s?
This ranked up there with Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
How many old heads remember this from the 80s?
This ranked up there with Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
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Top Gun (NES) Playthrough
How many old heads remember this from the 80s?
This ranked up there with Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
Couldn’t land on the aircraft carrier. Kept overshooting that Mofo
Top Gun (NES) Playthrough
How many old heads remember this from the 80s?
This ranked up there with Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
Damn
Good old days
^^^^
Same with me.
Took me some time to figure out not to look directly at the carrier (which was cool looking) and pay attention to the flight control display.
I heard this is INCREDIBLE in 4dx
I’m about to sortie in a min. Btw you Mfs can fly the Block III Super Hornet in Ace Combat 7. Which I will then shoot you down.
Cruise came to Osan AB during filming of first movie. Mf damn near a midget
Cruise came to Osan AB during filming of first movie. Mf damn near a midget
yep. back in the day, they said he would always stand on apple boxes to give himself more height. I guess at some point he found a way to accept he was short.
I did notice in Maverick he was damn near looking up to every actor he came across..lol.
Nicole Kidman put him on blast after they split cuz she had to avoid wearing high heels when they were on the red carpet and other events.
How does 5′ 7″ Tom Cruise stand tall next to Kate Middleton?
There has long been speculation that Tom Cruise uses various tricks to look as tall as possible when he stands near taller female co-stars at public events.
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Nicole Kidman put him on blast after they split cuz she had to avoid wearing high heels when they were on the red carpet and other events.
How does 5′ 7″ Tom Cruise stand tall next to Kate Middleton?
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Yea I remember that. Sue Said now she can fucking wear her heels
Top Gun: Maverick Has One More Record to Break
By Chris Lee@__ChrisLee
It’s coming for the big boat movie. Photo: Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures
Tom Cruise didn’t want to make Top Gun 2. He’d long resisted Hollywood’s entreaties to reboot, remake, or “reinvent” the 1986 original. But after being persuasively pitched by director Joseph Kosinski in 2017 — and personally calling Paramount to notify the studio it would be distributing the movie — the superstar threw himself into the process as a performer and producer, pulling multiple Gs (while operating his own cameras in the cockpit of an F-18) to reprise his role as brash flying ace Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in what is arguably the foundational film of his A-list career.
“Tom described it as hitting a bullet with a bullet,” Kosinski said after the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick at CinemaCon in April. “We knew the bar was high.”
It’s fair to say that, at this point, the sequel — with a release pushed back five times between 2019 and 2022 — has more than achieved liftoff. Over the weekend, Maverick blasted past the $1 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales to become the most successful film of Cruise’s 40-year career. It’s 2022’s highest-grossing movie so far and only the second film of the N-95 era to join the three-comma club. (The other is, of course, Spider-Man: No Way Home.)
On the heels of an opening weekend that set a new bar for the Memorial Day corridor, drawing in the holdout moviegoing population of viewers older than 35, Maverick has morphed into a true four-quadrant crowd-pleaser — old and young, people of all genders, members of Gen X and their recalcitrant Zoomer children. It lost out to the flashy new Baz Luhrmann Elvis biopic by only $1 million last weekend in a testament to the military thriller’s supersonic staying power. In fact, Paramount says an impressive 16 percent of Maverick’s audiences have been repeat viewers.
“There haven’t been a lot of collective experiences lately,” says Paramount’s worldwide marketing and distribution president, Marc Weinstock. “It’s a movie that makes you cheer, laugh, cry, walk out of the theater happier than when you walked in. When you have something like this — with explosive word of mouth, like, ‘Oh, you’ve got to see it!’ — everyone needs to be in on the conversation.”
Maverick’s numbers — which would be impressive in a pre-pandemic summer, when moviegoer confidence levels weren’t stuck at 85 percent (according to the latest National Research Group survey) — are all the more dazzling considering the movie is selling roughly the same amount of tickets internationally as it is on this continent. (The last two Fast & Furious installments, by contrast, did around three-quarters of their business outside of the U.S. and Canada.) All this despite the movie being barred from theaters in the major movie marketplaces of China and Russia.
Currently the fourth most lucrative movie ever released by Paramount, however, Maverick has yet another bullet to hit with a bullet. If it stays in theaters into the fall, there is a strong chance Top Gun 2 could topple the $659 million domestic-box-office record long held by 1997’s Titanic as the biggest film in the studio’s 110-year history. Although the Oscar-winning epic-disaster romance still outpaces the fighter-pilot sequel with more than $2.2 billion in global grosses, Maverick has already taken in $525 million in North American ticket sales. And having returned to IMAX theaters last week by popular demand (after getting bumped by the less critically and commercially well-received presumed blockbusters Jurassic World: Dominion and Lightyear), Paramount is giving no indication it plans to pull the rip cord on Maverick’s theatrical run anytime soon.
“It’s rare to get the special kind of alchemy that creates a true event film,” Paramount CEO Brian Robbins said in a statement. “We have been absolutely blown away by the global response to Top Gun: Maverick.”
Paramount has not yet announced when the movie will hit Paramount+, though it’s expected to land there eventually. The studio typically gives its films 45 days of exclusivity in theaters, meaning the movie would not be available to stream until at least mid-July. Its race to beat Titanic’s record could delay that substantially.
“The first Top Gun played for almost a year in theaters,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore, points out. “That was obviously a much different time, when films opened in many fewer theaters and weren’t dealing with streaming and the different dynamics of the modern movie marketplace. But I think that, clearly, this is a movie that’s going to go against tradition by having the legs that movies enjoyed back in the ’80s.”
In an uncharacteristically terse tweet on Monday, Cruise expressed gratitude for Maverick’s hero’s welcome while more generally cheerleading theatrical moviegoing.
By Chris Lee@__ChrisLee
It’s coming for the big boat movie. Photo: Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures
Tom Cruise didn’t want to make Top Gun 2. He’d long resisted Hollywood’s entreaties to reboot, remake, or “reinvent” the 1986 original. But after being persuasively pitched by director Joseph Kosinski in 2017 — and personally calling Paramount to notify the studio it would be distributing the movie — the superstar threw himself into the process as a performer and producer, pulling multiple Gs (while operating his own cameras in the cockpit of an F-18) to reprise his role as brash flying ace Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in what is arguably the foundational film of his A-list career.
“Tom described it as hitting a bullet with a bullet,” Kosinski said after the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick at CinemaCon in April. “We knew the bar was high.”
It’s fair to say that, at this point, the sequel — with a release pushed back five times between 2019 and 2022 — has more than achieved liftoff. Over the weekend, Maverick blasted past the $1 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales to become the most successful film of Cruise’s 40-year career. It’s 2022’s highest-grossing movie so far and only the second film of the N-95 era to join the three-comma club. (The other is, of course, Spider-Man: No Way Home.)
On the heels of an opening weekend that set a new bar for the Memorial Day corridor, drawing in the holdout moviegoing population of viewers older than 35, Maverick has morphed into a true four-quadrant crowd-pleaser — old and young, people of all genders, members of Gen X and their recalcitrant Zoomer children. It lost out to the flashy new Baz Luhrmann Elvis biopic by only $1 million last weekend in a testament to the military thriller’s supersonic staying power. In fact, Paramount says an impressive 16 percent of Maverick’s audiences have been repeat viewers.
“There haven’t been a lot of collective experiences lately,” says Paramount’s worldwide marketing and distribution president, Marc Weinstock. “It’s a movie that makes you cheer, laugh, cry, walk out of the theater happier than when you walked in. When you have something like this — with explosive word of mouth, like, ‘Oh, you’ve got to see it!’ — everyone needs to be in on the conversation.”
Maverick’s numbers — which would be impressive in a pre-pandemic summer, when moviegoer confidence levels weren’t stuck at 85 percent (according to the latest National Research Group survey) — are all the more dazzling considering the movie is selling roughly the same amount of tickets internationally as it is on this continent. (The last two Fast & Furious installments, by contrast, did around three-quarters of their business outside of the U.S. and Canada.) All this despite the movie being barred from theaters in the major movie marketplaces of China and Russia.
Currently the fourth most lucrative movie ever released by Paramount, however, Maverick has yet another bullet to hit with a bullet. If it stays in theaters into the fall, there is a strong chance Top Gun 2 could topple the $659 million domestic-box-office record long held by 1997’s Titanic as the biggest film in the studio’s 110-year history. Although the Oscar-winning epic-disaster romance still outpaces the fighter-pilot sequel with more than $2.2 billion in global grosses, Maverick has already taken in $525 million in North American ticket sales. And having returned to IMAX theaters last week by popular demand (after getting bumped by the less critically and commercially well-received presumed blockbusters Jurassic World: Dominion and Lightyear), Paramount is giving no indication it plans to pull the rip cord on Maverick’s theatrical run anytime soon.
“It’s rare to get the special kind of alchemy that creates a true event film,” Paramount CEO Brian Robbins said in a statement. “We have been absolutely blown away by the global response to Top Gun: Maverick.”
Paramount has not yet announced when the movie will hit Paramount+, though it’s expected to land there eventually. The studio typically gives its films 45 days of exclusivity in theaters, meaning the movie would not be available to stream until at least mid-July. Its race to beat Titanic’s record could delay that substantially.
“The first Top Gun played for almost a year in theaters,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore, points out. “That was obviously a much different time, when films opened in many fewer theaters and weren’t dealing with streaming and the different dynamics of the modern movie marketplace. But I think that, clearly, this is a movie that’s going to go against tradition by having the legs that movies enjoyed back in the ’80s.”
In an uncharacteristically terse tweet on Monday, Cruise expressed gratitude for Maverick’s hero’s welcome while more generally cheerleading theatrical moviegoing.
Top Gun (NES) Playthrough
How many old heads remember this from the 80s?
This ranked up there with Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
i always hated having to land on the air craft carrier....
fucked around and killed everybody on the flight deck every time.....
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Man I saw this shit finally and all you cats saying it was the best movie ever were bugging. It's was cool, but it's basically the same as the first one, and every other action movie cliche ever. I knew everything about this movie before I ever saw it, it's all the cliches rolled into one.
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Not gone lie. It was hard to get through all five minutes of this. I'm watching Maverick tonight. Hope it's good.
Who said it was the best movie ever.
Dudes just love to complain, grumpy old men style
Who said it was the best movie ever.
Dudes just love to complain, grumpy old men style
It's the same movie as the first one. I mean it made you feel like a kid a again which was great for you. And it's a good movie. But it's the same as the first one and not something I personally would see again.
The consensus of this thread is that it is a GREAT not good movie. So I went in expecting greatness.
It's nothing to fight over bruh. I'm not shitting on the movie. I just thought was decent.
It's really not other than the planes and a couple of characters
I never even saw the first one and went back and watched it after Is saw this
I think you're forgetting part of the consensus, its a GREAT movie for a SEQUEL 20+ years later. Usually sequels that have more than 5yrs between them are pretty bad, and the next best comp is Independence Day Resurgence which was hot garbage. So as a sequel its a pretty good movie.
It's a sequel, of course it's going to be call backs
It's not the same movie
The first one was a bunch of kids trying to be the best and win
This one wasn't centered on the kids
The first one was about a hot head pilot named Maverick that breaks the rules, disobeys military command and causes damage because of it, but still his skills are needed to complete the mission and save the day.
The second one is about...
But hey, it was a fun flick, glad everyone enjoyed it.
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Quentin Tarantino Calls ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ a ‘Spectacle’ He Never Thought He’d See Again: ‘I F—ing Love It’
Quentin Tarantino is a massive fan of Tom Cruise.
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“I fucking love ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ I thought it was fantastic,” Tarantino said. “I saw it at the theaters. That and [Steven] Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ both provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore. It was fantastic.”
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes ‘Titanic’ as Seventh-Highest Grossing Release in Domestic Box Office History
With a $662 million gross, Paramount and Tom Cruise's sequel has become the seventh-highest grossing film ever at the domestic box office.
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes ‘Titanic’ as Seventh-Highest Grossing Release in Domestic Box Office History
By Rebecca Rubin
Hook, line and sinker. “Top Gun: Maverick” has toppled “Titanic” as the seventh-highest grossing film ever at the domestic box office, earning $662 million in ticket sales.
“Titanic,” one of the biggest success stories in box office history, earned a monumental $600.7 million in its original 1997 release and it has generated $659 million (not adjusted for inflation) with subsequent re-releases.
For Paramount, “Top Gun: Maverick” has also overtaken “Titanic” as the studio’s biggest film in its 110-year history. However, James Cameron’s disaster epic is still outpacing Tom Cruise’s fighter-jet adventure outside of North America with $1.5 billion at the international box office and $2.2 billion globally.
Impressively, “Top Gun: Maverick” has sold a similar number of tickets overseas as it has domestically, with the film’s international tally standing at $690 million. Without playing in China or Russia, the blockbuster follow-up to 1986’s “Top Gun” has grossed $1.352 billion worldwide to date. It’s the 13th-highest grossing movie globally.
Thanks to glowing word-of-mouth and repeat customers, “Top Gun: Maverick” is pulling in audiences in a way that would have been monumental even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it’s close to reaching Marvel’s epic superhero mashup “Avengers: Infinity War,” which currently stands as the sixth-highest grossing domestic release ever with $678 million.
Beyond that, the list of the top five domestic releases ever consists of “Black Panther” ($700 million), “Avatar” ($760 million), “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ($804 million), “Avengers: Endgame” ($853 million) and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($936 million).
Since “Top Gun: Maverick” debuted in May and cleared a new Memorial Day weekend opening record with $160.5 million, it has remained a box office force. The film didn’t waver from the top five on weekend charts for ten weeks. “Maverick” is Cruise’s first movie to surpass $100 million in a single weekend and his first to reach $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
Joseph Kosinski directed the long-delayed “Top Gun: Maverick,” which picks up decades after the original and follows Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he trains a young group of aviators for a dangerous mission. The cast includes Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer, who played Iceman in the first “Top Gun.”
By Rebecca Rubin
Hook, line and sinker. “Top Gun: Maverick” has toppled “Titanic” as the seventh-highest grossing film ever at the domestic box office, earning $662 million in ticket sales.
“Titanic,” one of the biggest success stories in box office history, earned a monumental $600.7 million in its original 1997 release and it has generated $659 million (not adjusted for inflation) with subsequent re-releases.
For Paramount, “Top Gun: Maverick” has also overtaken “Titanic” as the studio’s biggest film in its 110-year history. However, James Cameron’s disaster epic is still outpacing Tom Cruise’s fighter-jet adventure outside of North America with $1.5 billion at the international box office and $2.2 billion globally.
Impressively, “Top Gun: Maverick” has sold a similar number of tickets overseas as it has domestically, with the film’s international tally standing at $690 million. Without playing in China or Russia, the blockbuster follow-up to 1986’s “Top Gun” has grossed $1.352 billion worldwide to date. It’s the 13th-highest grossing movie globally.
Thanks to glowing word-of-mouth and repeat customers, “Top Gun: Maverick” is pulling in audiences in a way that would have been monumental even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it’s close to reaching Marvel’s epic superhero mashup “Avengers: Infinity War,” which currently stands as the sixth-highest grossing domestic release ever with $678 million.
Beyond that, the list of the top five domestic releases ever consists of “Black Panther” ($700 million), “Avatar” ($760 million), “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ($804 million), “Avengers: Endgame” ($853 million) and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($936 million).
Since “Top Gun: Maverick” debuted in May and cleared a new Memorial Day weekend opening record with $160.5 million, it has remained a box office force. The film didn’t waver from the top five on weekend charts for ten weeks. “Maverick” is Cruise’s first movie to surpass $100 million in a single weekend and his first to reach $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
Joseph Kosinski directed the long-delayed “Top Gun: Maverick,” which picks up decades after the original and follows Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he trains a young group of aviators for a dangerous mission. The cast includes Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer, who played Iceman in the first “Top Gun.”
Saw the movie 2 weeks ago.
Enjoyed it, as expected. Hadn't seen the original (was 6yo when it was released and just never got around to it) - just bits and pieces over the years, and clips on Youtube / references in pop culture. So had saved it on DVR (original) and watched that the day before seeing this one.
The callbacks and nostalgia were respectfully well done.
The action scenes were top notch.
Some of the dialogue scenes had low audio / volume ... so it was quite a funny contrast during the action scenes and how loud they were. The jets taking off? Damn ... feel that in your damn chest!
And that damn Mission Impossible trailer for release in July 2023 looks damn good too. Thanks for the entertainment, Cruise and company.
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Enjoyed it, as expected. Hadn't seen the original (was 6yo when it was released and just never got around to it) - just bits and pieces over the years, and clips on Youtube / references in pop culture. So had saved it on DVR (original) and watched that the day before seeing this one.
The callbacks and nostalgia were respectfully well done.
The action scenes were top notch.
Some of the dialogue scenes had low audio / volume ... so it was quite a funny contrast during the action scenes and how loud they were. The jets taking off? Damn ... feel that in your damn chest!
And that damn Mission Impossible trailer for release in July 2023 looks damn good too. Thanks for the entertainment, Cruise and company.
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